5. Palette – or anything, really, to mix the paint on, or in. Use recycled lids (turn up side down), plastic plates, small jars or (our favorite) chocolate box plastic inserts, to mix colors in. Make shades of colors by adding various amounts of another color – white was used here. Make 8 or more colors.

6. Pre paint the base color and let dry. Don’t forget the sides.

7. Give each participant a board, some premixed paint and brushes.

8. Choose a theme – in our case, hearts.

9. Everyone gets one minute to paint a heart, or add to one already painted.

10. After one minute, everyone stops. The board is passed to the person on the right. Another minute of painting begins. Continue passing the boards around. Stop when you want to.

11. To hang. As our boards were blocks of wood, we used brackets nailed to the back of the block. (Yep, there’s always math.)